Oil painting
The Awkward Motif
Original title: Le motif maladroit
A beaming bather in a red cap, flanked by a baguette and a plucked chicken.
His torso rises out of a slab of white paving that floats on the sea, under a sky running from red to yellow. On the left is the loaf on its plate, on the right the bird on its hook. Both of these “still lifes” have shapes it is impossible not to notice. A seaside-postcard joke, painted with the confidence of a shop sign.
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- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 80 × 60 cm
- Year
- 2002
- Collection
- Oil painting
- Status
- Unique piece
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ViewingThe work can be seen at the Fontainebleau studio, by appointment.
About the series
Each canvas in this cycle starts from a title — an expression, a brand, a slogan — and treats it as a subject for classical painting. The result is a chronicle of contemporary public life, in which power, money and belief appear as characters.
